Yesterday we arrived in Seward AK, which in my Ohio-an estimation is one of the mountainiest places I’ve ever seen. Seward is a port city, incident on the very Russian sounding Resurrection Bay.

Figure 1: Resurrection Bay

The first thing on the agenda yesterday was a 6-hour boat trip out to the Holgate Glacier. We left the bay in good spirits, I took a ridiculous Titanic picture, with my arms outstretched on the bow of the boat. I was promptly told that everybody does that, which did burst my bubble just a little.  We saw a humpback whale in the bay, and a pod of orcas, all just hangin’ out.

Figure 2: Orcas chillin.

Then we entered the ocean to navigate around a peninsula, which stood between us an our glacier. And I, almost immediately, turned green…  Despite my Scandinavian heritage, I get terribly seasick. So the next three hours were quite unpleasant. Eventually the Dramamine I had taken kicked in and I feel asleep on the second deck.

Thankfully, Richard kicked me awake when we reached the Holgate Glacier Even in a drowsy, nauseated state, the cool blue glacier ice was unbelievably beautiful. We hung out in the bay and watched chunks of ice crumble off the face of the glacier. I even managed to compose myself enough to take a duck-face selfie with the glacier…
#selfie-triumph

Figure 3: Selfie with the Holgate Glacier